nonfiction
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Banaras Lit Fest 2025 Book Awards announces longlists in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translation
Scroll Staff
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A new book shows how Nalanda Mahavihara contributed to the fields of ancient mathematics, astronomy
Abhay K
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‘The Amateurs’: Saikat Majumdar’s book argues that reading can be a route to claiming selfhood
Saloni Sharma
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This book studies past central governments to analyse the current regime’s push for privatisation
Sheela Dubey
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A new book investigates journalist Gauri Lankesh’s assassination and its effect on Indian democracy
Rollo Romig
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Hindi autobiography: An excerpt from ‘Zindagi Ko Dhoondhate Hue’, by Sheoraj Singh Bechain
Sheoraj Singh Bechain
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In this essay, Amitav Ghosh writes about his memories of 9/11 as a resident of Brooklyn, New York
Amitav Ghosh
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‘Not such a bad thing’: Why did feminist Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain say this about the burka?
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain Ben Baer
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Are China’s global expansionist plans undermining the sovereignty of debt-ridden countries?
Bertil Linter
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Kerala Literature Festival Book of the Year Awards announces 2024 fiction and nonfiction longlists
Scroll Staff
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Books of conscience, books of courage, books of pain: Harsh Mander’s 15 favourite books of 2024
Harsh Mander
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This book examines why Buddhism did not reach the West until the 18th century
Shashank Shekhar Sinha
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A new book on modern Karnataka also looks at the exclusion of Bengali migrant workers in Bangalore
Srikar Raghavan
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Hello 2025: Six recently-published Indian nonfiction books to welcome a new year with
Scroll Staff
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How ornithologists Ravi Sankaran and K Sivakumar studied the rare Nicobar Megapode
Radhika Raj
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Five of the best international nonfiction books of 2024 – according to expert readers
Jay Prosser, The Conversation Christopher Rodgers, The Conversation Julia Johnson, The Conversation Kieran Connell, The Conversation Olaya Moldes Andrés, The Conversation
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How do overconfident politicians hurt their country’s people? A behavioural scientist finds out
Vivek Nityananda
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Can understanding the science of bubbles help us understand how humans speak? Yes, say physicists
Zahaan Bharmal
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‘Modernity, Print and Sahitya’: A well-researched book about how Odia literature shaped its culture
Mohammad Asim Siddiqui
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What a meeting with a woman entrepreneur in Kolkata taught a German diplomat about women in India
Walter J Lindner